19 Jan. 2019
O-Bank Concert Hall

Improvising Mozart
                                                                          Robert Levin​

18:00-19:30
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Robert Levin studied piano with Louis Martin and composition with Stefan Wolpe in New York. He worked with Nadia Boulanger in Fon­tainebleau and Paris from age 12-16. Upon his graduation from Harvard he was invited by Rudolf Serkin to head the theory department of the Curtis Institute of Music, thereafter taking up a professorship at the School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase. In 1979 he was Resident Director of the Conserva­toire américain in Fontainebleau, France, at the request of Nadia Boulanger, and taught there from 1979 to 1983. From 1986 to 1993 he was professor of piano at the Staatliche Hoch­schule für Musik in Freiburg im Breis­gau, Germany.  

​President of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, a mem­­ber of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Research Professor of the Humanities at Harvard Uni­versity and Visiting Professor at The Juilliard School.

Growing up to be a musician                                                                                                                                  John Perry

20:00-21:30
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John Perry, distinguished artist and teacher, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Eastman School of Music where he was a student of Cecile Genhart. During those summers, he worked with the eminent Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he continued studies in Europe for four years where he worked with Wladyslav Kedra, Polish concert artist and professor at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, and Carlo Zecchi, renowned conductor, pianist, and head of the piano department at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome.

​Mr. Perry has won numerous awards including the highest prizes in both the Busoni and Viotti international piano competitions in Italy and special honors at the Marguerite Long International Competition in Paris. Since then he has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America to great critical acclaim. Also a respected chamber musician, Mr. Perry has collaborated with some of the finest instrumentalists in the world.

20 Jan. 2019
The Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University

Round Table with Dang Thai-Son
                                                                        Dang Thai-Son

13:30-15:00
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“A genuine musician” - Isaac Stern 

An outstanding international musician of our time, Vietnamese pianist Dang Thai Son was propelled to the forefront of the musical world in October 1980, when he was awarded the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Xth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. It was also the first time that a top international competition was won by an Asian pianist. ​

Performances are to be appreciated or to be judged? The Anatomy of Pianists on Fire.                                                                                                                                                                                                             Dr. Fan Wei-Tsu 

15:30-17:00
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Dean of the College of Arts and Professor of the Chinese Music Department at Chinese Culture University, received his training at the Northwestern University with a PhD in musicology (Dissertation: Variant Performances of Franz Liszt’s Piano Music in Early Recordings: A Historical Perspective on Textual Alterations, 1991.) He is also the founder and Artistic Director of Research of Zheng Art and an executive board member of the Association of Chinese Music in Taiwan.

A prolific scholar on music aesthetics, Prof. FAN’s monthly columns on music culture and futurism published in All Music Magazine had generated heated responses on paper as well as over the internet. Among his critically acclaimed books are: Aspects of the Russian Pianism: A Critical Perspective (Beijing, 2005) and Moonlighting Liszt: Music Criticism at History Crossings (Taipei, 2005). He was commissioned by Taiwan’s National Endowment for Culture and Arts to conduct a major project aiming for the cultivation of aspiring young musicians. This research culminated in two books respectively entitled Gradus ad Parnassum: Music Competitions and Young Artist’s Career Building (Taipei, 2001) and International Sunset Colosseum for Aspiring Young Pianists (Taipei, 2007; Golden Bell Award “Music Criticism”, Beijing, 2013). He also contributes regularly to the Journal Piano Artistry (Beijing).
*We only offer single entry ticket for the Lectures on the 20th of January. The price for the single entry ticket is NTD 1,000. If you want to audit the Lectures on the 19th of January (Robert Levin & John Perry), please buy the "Ticket Package for all the Lectures" to attend the Lectures. We don't offer single entry ticket for the lectures on the 19th of January.
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